Overcast OVERC'AST, v.t.
1. To cloud; to darken; to cover with gloom.
The clouds that overcast our morn shall fly.
2. To cast or compute at too high a rate; to rate too high.
The king in his account of peace and calms did much overcast his fortunes -
3. To sew over.
OVERC'AST, pp. Clouded; overspread with clouds or gloom.
The dawn is overcast.
Our days of age are sad and overcast.

overcast adj 1: filled or abounding with clouds [syn: cloud-covered, clouded, overcast, sunless] n 1: the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds [syn: cloudiness, cloud cover, overcast] 2: gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover [syn: cloudiness, overcast] 3: a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling [syn: overcast, overcasting] 4: a cast that falls beyond the intended spot v 1: make overcast or cloudy; "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches" [syn: overcast, cloud] [ant: brighten, clear, clear up, light up] 2: sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches 3: sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next; "overcast books"

overcast c.1300, originally a verb, "to cover," as with a garment.

overcast I. transitive verb (-cast; -casting) Date: 14th century 1. darken, overshadow 2. to sew (raw edges of a seam) with long slanting widely spaced stitches to prevent raveling II. adjective Date: 1536 clouded over <an overcast day> III. noun Date: 1637 covering; especially a covering of clouds over the sky

overcast
adj., v., & n.
--adj.
1 (of the sky, weather, etc.) covered with cloud; dull and gloomy.
2 (in sewing) edged with stitching to prevent fraying.
--v.tr. (past and past part. -cast)
1 cover (the sky etc.) with clouds or darkness.
2 stitch over (a raw edge etc.) to prevent fraying.
--n. a cloud covering part of the sky.

overcast If it is overcast, or if the sky or the day is overcast, the sky is completely covered with cloud and there is not much light. For three days it was overcast... The weather forecast is for showers and overcast skies... ADJ

overcast ˈəuvəkɑ:st adj., v., & n. --adj. 1 (of the sky, weather, etc.) covered with cloud; dull and gloomy. 2 (in sewing) edged with stitching to prevent fraying. --v.tr. (past and past part. -cast) 1 cover (the sky etc.) with clouds or darkness. 2 stitch over (a raw edge etc.) to prevent fraying. --n. a cloud covering part of the sky.

Overcast \O`ver*cast"\, v. t. (Bookbinding) To fasten, as single sheets, by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.

Overcast \O`ver*cast"\, v. t. 1. To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken. Those clouds that overcast your morn shall fly. --Dryden. 2. To compute or rate too high. --Bacon. 3. (Sewing) To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.

overcast v. a. 1. Cloud, darken, obscure, eclipse. 2. Cover, overspread.

overcast ˈəuvəkɑ:st adj. cloudy, clouded, sunless, moonless, starless, murky, grey, louring or lowering, dull, dark, darkened, dreary, sombre, gloomy, dismal, threatening, menacing: The sky was overcast this morning, but the sun is now beginning to shine through.

158 Moby Thesaurus words for "overcast": Acheronian, Acherontic, CAT, Cimmerian, Stygian, adumbrate, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, becloud, bedarken, bedim, befog, begloom, bemist, black, black out, blacken, blackening, blanket, block the light, blocking the light, blot out, brooding, brown, bump, cap, cast a shadow, castellatus, ceiling, cirrose, cirrous, clabber up, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudiness, clouding, cloudy, crosswind, crown, cumuliform, cumulous, dark, dark and gloomy, darken, darken over, darkened, darkening, dim, dim out, dimming, dirty, dirty sky, dismal, dreary, dull, eclipse, eclipsing, empty space, encloud, encompass with shadow, enmist, extinguishment, favorable wind, fog, fogginess, front, funereal, gloom, gloomful, glooming, gloomy, grey, haze, haziness, head wind, heavy, heavy sky, high-pressure area, hole, ill-lighted, ill-lit, ionosphere, jetstream, lenticularis, low-pressure area, lowering, mammatus, menacing, mist, mistiness, murk, murky, nebulosity, nebulous, nimbose, nimbosity, nubilate, nubilation, nubilous, obfuscate, obfuscation, obnubilate, obnubilation, obscuration, obscure, obscurement, obumbrate, obumbration, occult, occultate, occulting, oppressive, overcloud, overclouded, overclouding, overlay, overshading, overshadow, overshadowing, overshadowment, oversmoke, overspread, pocket, roughness, shade, shading, shadow, shadowing, smog, smoke, somber, sombrous, soup, space, squally, starless, stormy, stratiform, stratosphere, stratous, substratosphere, sullen, sunless, tail wind, threatening, thunderheaded, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence, visibility, visibility zero

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